Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19155 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1691
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Does international financial integration boost economic growth? The question has been discussed controversially for a long time. As of yet, robust evidence for a positive impact is lacking (Edison et al., 2002). However, there is substantial narrative evidence from economic history that highlights the contribution European capital made to economic growth of peripheral economies before 1914. We have compiled the first comprehensive data set to test this hypothesis. The main finding is that there was indeed a significant and robust growth effect. Our theoretical explanation stresses property rights protection as a prerequisite for the standard neoclassical model to work properly.
Subjects: 
international financial integration
economic growth
first era of globalization
JEL: 
F30
O16
O11
F21
N20
F15
N10
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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